Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bravo! C'est magnifique!" cheered Conductor Pierre Monteux, 88, but it was not for a flawless interpretation of Beethoven's Ninth. In Britain to conduct the London Symphony, the former leader of the San Francisco Symphony took time out to realize a boyhood dream-donning a dandy fireman's hat and watching a ding-dong drill put on by the London Fire Brigade. The maestro loves to boast: "In my home town, Hancock, Maine, I built them a depot and bought an engine, and the population is only 400, so I guess I'm chief...
There is considerable doubt that Gibson could successfully conduct a country-wide strike. Many of his followers are retired miners, and splits have occured among the striking group. Last week there was considerable speculation that Gibson had lost control to another man who feels some of Gibson's intimates are too prone to violence. But he refuses to admit the possibility of defeat for the strikers. "We can't lose any more than we have already. We'll starve it out if necessary...
...tenor and soprano from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Then, as a harrowing surprise treat, each was given the score to Tadeusz Baird's Czetry Eseje-a contemporary work none of them had seen before-and told to be on the podium in four minutes, ready to conduct. Six survived. Said Chief Judge Bernstein darkly: ''One provocative fact: there is not one American among the six finalists...
Obviously a number of people at Harvard are confused about the power of the College to regulate the conduct of business in our buildings, and the CRIMSON, as is its perfect right, has done its best to dramatise this confusion. But the facts are clear. The College does have the power to regulate the conduct of business in its buildings,--solicitation, as well as deliveries. Final policy decisions about these matters rests, necessarily, with the Masters and the Freshman Dean. Day-to-day decisions, and recommendations as to policy, rest with the small Committee on Solicitation, which includes representatives...
...assumption that the College can control deliveries, as well as solicitation, if it wants to. The fact that deliveries of the outside company cakes continue, despite his request, helps to put in perspective the CRIMSON's standing allegation that Mr. Burke exercises a monopolistic and threatening power in the conduct of business at Harvard...